From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, olofj@chromium.org, snanda@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: i915: Default max backlight brightness value
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:28:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111108222805.GA19553@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV8Hs1wg6hzt7gRrqEe9HgjNo3Ga9GvAXbbbGqyoXC7t6c_OA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:27:04PM -0800, Simon Que wrote:
> This is for an x86-based Chromebook. Its firmware doesn't have the VBIOS
> support. Previously, we had our own backlight driver that also did a
> similar initialization. Now, we are trying to move away from that and use
> the upstream driver instead. However, we still don't have the firmware
> support, which is why we have this patch to provide the missing information.
I'm still not clear on this. There is no video support in the firmware
at all? What happens if the kernel fails to boot?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-08 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-08 21:35 [PATCH 1/2] drivers: i915: Fix BLC PWM register setup Simon Que
2011-11-08 21:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: i915: Default max backlight brightness value Simon Que
2011-11-08 21:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-08 22:05 ` Simon Que
2011-11-08 22:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-08 22:27 ` Simon Que
2011-11-08 22:28 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-11-08 22:41 ` Simon Que
2011-11-08 22:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-08 23:02 ` Olof Johansson
2011-11-08 23:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-09 1:49 ` Olof Johansson
2011-11-09 2:16 ` Bryan Freed
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